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   Hasn't this been done?

   

   Phibian, Oct 29th, 2004 @ 6:00am

   
   

   Being able to watch live TV anywhere is pretty cool, although it's not exactly new as a concept. This reminds me of iCraveTV (and later JumpTV) from way back.
   
   http://www.adlawbyrequest.com/international/JumpTV6401.shtml
   
   In trying to offer TV over the Internet, these companies ran into all kinds of regulatory issues. I wonder if the guy featured on Cringely's article is going to wish he hadn't been featured...

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   Reminds me of the ol' Onion article

   

   Brian Smith, Oct 29th, 2004 @ 7:12am

   
   

   I would've placed a link to the onion article that talked about a $5K computer that let you watch TV (not over the net, just regular TV :) ), but they've locked it in their archives :(
   
   New $5,000 Multimedia Computer System Downloads Real-Time TV Programs, Displays Them On Monitor
   HOUSTON—The highly touted "Internet Revolution" took another major step forward Monday, when Compaq unveiled the breakthrough Compaq Presario 6000, a $4,995 multimedia computer system that enables...
   3308 | 4 March 1998 | News

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   Chris, Oct 29th, 2004 @ 10:12am

   
   

   The price for his video card seems a little out of perspective. And your point about live TV events are really the good question: do we really care about "live" TV? For episodic programming, I'd say no. Athletic events, on the other hand, may have a good market - possibly a real good market if the programming goes mobile. Programming could be everything from little league to grade school to league and professional clubs. Any sport, anywhere.

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   yes, sports

   

   armando, Oct 29th, 2004 @ 12:40pm

   
   

   i'm a vikings fan, and live in pdx, so we're not in the vikings market(although they show a lot of detroit games here because ex-duck joey harrington is the q-back). it costs $10 a month just to hear a live stream of the vikings game, or i can cough up roughly $400 a season to get nfl direct ticket on satellite.
   i can see other would would want to get this card(although not at $6500).
   
   armando

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   any sport, any where, any time

   

   eponymous geek, Oct 29th, 2004 @ 4:52pm

   
   

   i remember one cable channel in Fla would show the saturday morning paintball tourney. I'd take that mobile!

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   jeff, Oct 29th, 2004 @ 6:21pm

   
   

   There is a really cool cutting edge machine just introduced for less than $200 that also allows you to watch live TV. It's called a television set!

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   Chris, Oct 29th, 2004 @ 6:43pm

   
   

   Regular TV might only cost you a few dollars, but it doesn't pick up BayWatch dubbed into Russian. That might be worth a few extra bucks.
   And didn't we just hear that Tivo killed live TV?

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 30th, 2004 @ 9:17am

   
   

   Is this even news ?
   
   I've had a TV tuner card in the last 3 computers I've bought.
   50 buck and 10 minutes is all it takes.
   
   Where the hell is my TV-B-Gone I ordered anyway ?

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